AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Recession or not, the cycle-happy Dutch are still spending a lot of money on their bicycles -- nearly 1 billion euros' worth a year, in fact. About 1.3 million bicycles ...

Thirty-two years ago, it was the summer of 1990. The Berlin Wall was dismantled, Madonna was on her Blonde Ambition tour, and a young woman was studying abroad in the Netherlands between graduating ...

In multiple European countries, bicycles play an important role when it comes to the mobility of the general citizenry. This is especially true in the Netherlands, where people living in the suburbs ...

A parking spot for a single car can hold as many as 10 bikes—but it’s often a challenge for a city to convince drivers that it’s okay to relinquish car parking space for other uses (witness battles ...

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Starting today, Apple Maps users in the Netherlands can access cycling route data on iPhone and Apple Watch. Dutch culture is known for being especially bike-friendly, so bringing this navigation ...

Beatriz Spaltemberg and her husband, William Lacerda, live in Utrecht, a city in the Netherlands. And according to Lacerda, bike thefts are becoming increasingly common there, so that’s why he decided ...

DANVILLE -- A Danville native pursuing his doctorate is heading to the Netherlands next fall to study bicycle dynamics and the relationship between bike design and handling. Jason Moore, a doctoral ...

On the bikes, we learned to be more Dutch. Setting out from Amsterdam, my husband and I donned our helmets for a 30-mile jaunt toward Marken, a picturesque village with brown-shingled windmills.